Speaking of Nokia - Engadget got their hands on what is supposedly an internal memo sent to Nokia employees by the company's new CEO. It's... Brutal. As in, brutally honest. There's no sugar-coating here, no unicorns, no glitter. "Nokia, our platform is burning." Update: Android is probably out of the question. Will it be Windows Phone 7, after all? Damn; Palm tonight, Nokia Friday - what a week for mobile! Update: The "Communities Dominate Brands" blog published an in-depth analysis of the memo, which claims with sound arguments that it might well be a hoax.

Nokia spent USD 150 mn to buy Qt. They are in the process of plowing probably another hundred million into it. They could have done a fork of GNUStep and invested a fraction of that money to have a nice platform with a language and an API that Apple has proven to work marvellously. They would even more or less share the developer base with Apple.

The software stack is not the problem and Qt is demonstrating that it is a perfect viable SDK to almost everything they want to do.

The problem is with the software stack "replacement" by itself. Moving to Meego, disposing everything Hildon/GTK+ in favor to Qt has meant a lot of work already done to be flushed. Now, with Meego in an "almost ready" state, disposing it in favor of another library/platform/language/SDK will bring more delay in this already delayed thing.

I think they would have had to improve Maemo 5, release Maemo 6 and Maemo 7 with a lot of improvements and polishment while refactoring everything building their Meego. So, they would have had something to deliver in the meanwhile.